LEAGUE of Wales chiefs are this week set to take the momentous decision to split from the FAW and go it alone.

A confidential business document which recommends the radical step will be presented to the League's 18 clubs at a meeting in Llandrindod Wells on Wednesday.

The document has been put together by the League's management board.

But it follows constant calls in this newspaper over the past few months from TNS chairman Mike Harris for the League to stand on its own two feet.

Copies of the document won't be circulated until Wednesday's meeting.

But we understand among the recommendations being put forward are:

The League to ask for a six-figure sum per annum from the FAW to run its own financial affairs; An eventual move out of the FAW's Westgate Street offices; The appointment of a full-time chief executive and secretary; The League to negotiate for its own TV rights, sponsorship and advertising deals. The League of Wales is currently run by secretary John Deakin, who works within the FAW's offices and combines work for the two bodies.

The new plan would see the League, of course, remain under the auspices of the FAW, its governing body.

However, there has been a growing move for the League's clubs to have autonomy over their financial affairs, rather than be given a set sum - in effect subsidised - each year by the FAW.

We understand League chiefs will initially push the FAW for &#xA3;200,000 per year, money made up from cash from UEFA, TV rights and various other areas.

Their hopes of getting that amount are slim, but a compromise package may be struck.

Harris and other LoW chiefs admit the League has stagnated and a fresh new direction is needed.

They will try the go-it-alone route. Whether, out of the comforting arms of the FAW, they can make a success of it, remains to be seen.